ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,523, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage devices and methods of operating the same" was invented by Hyunjin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghyun Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kuiyon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a storage device including a nonvolatile memory device and a storage controller that is configured to control the nonvolatile memory device, the method comprising: partitioning the nonvolatile memory device into a plurality of domains; determining a scramble function based on a ...